Well, um, you never tried the Amiga then. I had a runaway program that was eating all the ram. When the ram filled up my Amiga popped up a message telling me ram was full. So I killed the process and cleared stuff out of my ram disk and went merrily on my way. Back to XP. I rebooted yesterday because the latest MS security update required it. Other than that I haven't had to reboot since I don't even remember.